By the way ... I can't really take credit, as the whole UMLUG thing just sort of crystallized on its own and I happened to be there. Peter was equally instrumental. The list actually started with a group order for some Slackware 2.3 installation CDROM's (back before we had our own writers). We had 11 names on that list.
The first message to the majordomo mailing list was 27 Nov 1995. Back then I wrote: > I guess this also means we're now the UMCP-LUG, but don't worry, > there won't be meetings or dues or elections or anything like that. So much for my prophetic powers. Hey, one out of three ain't bad. Peter: I vaguely recall what those 1995 emails were about :) Judah Peter Teuben <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we do keep on nice history on www.tux.org list, where it was founded > November 1995. Indeed it was Judah who jump-started, i was somewhere > around as well, but the credit goes to Judah. > > The first message i have from judah in my possibly not complete email > folder is from August 26, 1996 though. several other from the 1995 > year, but nothing um related :-() I'll dig through my outbox files, > they seem to be better organized in 1995. > > peter > > > fall of 1994, I believe. Maybe 1995? Maybe it's time for the periodic > > reposting of Message #1 :) >
